Buried with Christ

We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death. Rom 6:4

Buried with Christ, my soul is free!
From all the stench of sin and guilt
Formerly that surrounded me
Until the Savior’s blood was spilt,
Until they laid him in the tomb,
Until the dead was done away,
Until they sealed with heavy stone
The crypt where death’s corruption lay.
    (Rom 6:3; Matt 27:57-60;
    Mark 15:42-46; Luke 23:50-53;
    John 19:38-42; Rom 6:6 NASB)

Buried with Christ, how can we rise
Again to dwell in sin’s domain?
The old man’s dead; he cannot prise
The grave apart, nor live again!
For Jesus gave his final breath
Atonement for our souls to win
And baptized us into his death
To free from slavery to sin.
    (Rom 6:1-4a, 6)

Buried with Christ, and dead to sin!
Behind his back it now is cast,
Ev’ry miasma once within
Dispersed, forgiven, blotted—past!
His sacrifice was once, for all
Our sins to plunge into the seas,
To lawless deeds no more recall
But cast them far as west from east.
    (Isa 38:17; 43:25; 44:22; Jer 31:34;
    Heb 9:26b; Mic 7:19; Heb 10:17-18;
    Ps 103:12)

Buried with Christ, I now press on
To make his resurrection mine;
Jesus has called me for his own
And bids me leave all else behind.
I do not fully here attain
To all that then I hope to be,
Yet still by faith I’ll upward strain
Until his glory raises me.
    (Phil 3:12-15)

—6/22/25

I would be remiss here if I did not credit Steve LeBlanc's sermon “‘Baptized Into Christ’ part 3,” from 6/22/25 at Sherman Bible Church, as the source which I have freely plaigarized.